Sandel’s online Justice Course
Cross-posted over at In Socrates’ Wake: I just came across this website (via Everyday Philosophy at the Purple Bike Café) that is gradually releasing videos from what appears to be a comprehensive introductory ethics course by Michael Sandel at Harvard. I’ve read Sandel, but I had no idea he was such a gifted lecturer. The aesthetic is a little weird — the production qualities suggest daytime talk show meets Sunday preaching meets professional comedy. But the intellectual content is excellent and it’s

The new anti-political correctness
Over at A Ku Indeed, Chris wrote a post about David Frum’s piece on the need to put some distance between Glenn Beck and the GOP. While Frum’s piece is helpful, it’s hard not to see conservatives-in-exile as lying in the bed made by years of disparaging government. But that’s not the point of this post. I was reading Josh Marshall’s site the other day when I saw the news item about Cass Sunstein being confirmed more or less along party lines and clicked through to see who had voted against